Klarinet Archive - Posting 000255.txt from 2002/10

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Marching band --- not what I expected
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:30:46 -0400

In a message dated 10/6/2002 1:07:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
w9wright@-----.net (William Wright) writes:

<<My purpose in posting was a little different, however. What I wanted to
say was that marching band doesn't have to be what some of us assume that it
must be. Nor does it exclude superior musical performance.>>

Sorry Bill, but when Tony Pay plays the "clarinet solo" of the third movement
of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto on a football (Amereican) field with the
Simon Rattle as drum major of the "Marching Band of Enlightenment," please
let me know. I'll be there. I'm looking forward to seeing the
performance...and hearing the 11 marimbas!

Don Gross
La Canada, California

p.s. Taken to it's absurd extreme, why don't the major symphonies of the
world compete head to head in performance? We could publish a list of works
to be performed and then get to hear the NY Phil, LA Phil, Chicago Symphony,
Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, ad infinitum, ad nauseum,
perform them under one roof. The next "Battle of the Bands." And for
judges...? I'm certainly glad I got my marching band out of the way in the
1950s.

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